how come i cant put my ATI HD 6850 to the highest setting for example: like putting vertical refresh at the highest, if i put it to the highest it laggs, is the video card not good enough to put everything to the highest? and what type of videocard do i need to be able to put everything to the highest setting?

If you meant this, vertical refresh is only really needed if you have some tearing while gaming, otherwise it does use up a bit of cpu power, though I have a fairly similar build to yours and I can hardly see what kind of game would make you lag...

If you meant this, vertical refresh is only really needed if you have some tearing while gaming, otherwise it does use up a bit of cpu power, though I have a fairly similar build to yours and I can hardly see what kind of game would make you lag...

sorry i meant on, heres the problem:

this quote came from a different forum i posted wrote:

if i go to catalyst Control center there is an option called 3D: there are 5 options on that 3D menu option1-Standard 2-AA 3-AAmode 4-AF 5-Allnow if i put everything on the highes of 1-2-3-4, it runs good, if i click All there are 6 options,1-Anti-Aliasing2-Anistropic Filtering3-Catalyst A.I. "texture filtering"4-vertical refresh5-Anti Aliasing Mode6-OpenGL Settings "Triple buffering"

now if i set those 6 options set high in the All options, it runs slow, but not the first 4 options i mentioned above,

the guy i bought my computer from said that the video card is a bit overclocked, could that be the problem? i hope not,

well, it's not the rest of your system, so it's either your graphics card or a software problem. I've been out of the loop regarding new hardware lately, so i'm not familiar with your card, but if it compares to the 5780 HD (my card), I can't see that bottlenecking much either....

Have you checked your drivers are up to date?? AMD has had at times shitty drivers, and vertical sync and the such are often affected.

Ur PC is enought to run almost any game on max on 1080p except gfx is a bit strange combo with this cost of pc also idk why 27" monitor have 1080p resolution this is bad for such a big monitor. In which games it lag ? as i t shouldn't for TCE even old 8600,8800 and many others in same price range can run TCE on max (woo's HD config)
and which gfx u will buy u will wait for nvidia 6xx serias as it should be released in this year.

With MSI Afterburner try how much is GPU load when games are running
http://event.msi.com/vga/afterburner/download.htmDownload Heaven Benchmark http://unigine.com/download/ and set on max settings (set also on dx11) you can also test with furmark (not benchmark software) but it can crash ur gfx
Also idk how good is this ur PSU (seems crapy one) but best one are Corsair,Enermax,NZXT,Antec

i think im going to buy a 450 euro videocard, this video card is kind of crappy, however its OC edition, meaning its overclock edition, i can overclock it but i dont wanna risk it, if i send this HD 6850 video card back i'll get my money back,

overclock your gfx card with msi afterburner just a lil bit (eg. 5mhz on core is enough) and i promise you tce will perform a lot better (will give u stable performance with other games as well).
this is absolutely no danger to ur card at all and nothing can happen so dont be afraid. u can reset it with 1 click anyway.
try and report back

//edit: btw AA x4 (box) and AF x8 is the highest i would go for in tce, its actually not even really noticeable and higher settings have more impact on fps
vsync off, triple buffering not needed
in tce open console (with ^ or ~) and type
/r_finish 0
/r_swapinterval 0
/com_maxfps 125
/vid_restart
(ofc press enter after each line)
enjoy